Swetha Suresh

Swetha Suresh
Born	(1991-09-05) 5 September 1991
Occupation	Whistler / Musician
Years active	1999-present
Parent(s)	Suresh Ganapathy

Swetha Suresh (born 5 September 1991) first Indian woman to win two first prizes in the World Whistling Convention from India. Swetha is commonly called as Whistling Queen, an accomplished Bharathanatyam dancer and classical singer. She is also a member of the lesser-known Indian Whistlers Association alongside 400 other whistling enthusiasts. She has performed in more than 6,000 shows. She is an Audio engineer by academics.^[1]

Place in Book of Records

Swetha whistled 197 songs for 18 hours like classical, semi classical, devotional, old classics and modern era songs and got placed Asia Book of Records, India Book of Records and Limca Book of Records at Chennai, on 5 October 2014.^[2]

World Whistling Convention

Swetha being a trained classical singer and Bharathanatyam dancer at a very young age, is now training herself in western-classical too. Swetha became the first Indian woman to win two first prizes in the World Whistling Convention 2016 held at Kawasaki, Japan which saw participation from a total of 6 countries including, Japan, India, Australia, Korea, the United States, and Venezuela. Popularly known as the ‘Whistling Queen’ in the Indian Whistling Association, she now stands as the first female whistler in the country and is also in the number one position in Asia.

She danced and whistled simultaneously and won the world whistling queen title at World Whistling Convention 2016 in Japan.^{[1][3][4][5][6][7]}

Movie Works

• ‘Verasa Pogayile’ from Jilla
• ‘Yennada Yennada’ from Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam
• ‘Paravaiya Parakkurom’ from Kayal
• The theme music of Pokkiri Raja was also her whistling, as she has for Vikram Prabhu’s movie Wagah
• ‘Kurumba Kurumba’ from Tik Tik Tik

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